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Country
  
Department
  
Intercommunality
  
Tarn and Dadou

Area
  
32.43 km²

Region
  
Occitanie

Canton
  
Population (2013)
  
1,376

Arrondissement
  
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Montans is a commune in the Tarn department and Occitanie region of southern France.

Contents

Map of 81600 Montans, France

Geography

Situated between Lisle-sur-Tarn and Gaillac, near the A68 autoroute, the village stands at the end of a terrace overlooking the River Tarn. The locality produces wine with the appellation Gaillac AOC.

Name

The name of the settlement is derived from the Occitan word montant, meaning "steep".

History

The site of Montans was occupied by a Gallic oppidum. Already, the Gauls were producing pottery on the site since the environment was favorable with the alluvium covering the terrace containing pockets of clay. Following the Roman occupation, the site became in the beginning of AD one of the most important centers of pottery production in the Gallo-Roman world. The pottery was exported, mostly by water down the Tarn and Garonne rivers all the way to places like Brittany and Great Britain.

Tourism

L'Archéosite is a museum and documentation center, with an exhibition of pottery from Antiquity and a reconstitution of a Gallo-Roman street and shops leading to the potter's house.

On the bank of the Tarn river, Guest houses offer bedrooms and dinners, such as at the Aigue Verte for example.

References

Montans Wikipedia


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